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Camino Primitivo: Day Six

10 October 2025 Denise Ketcham 0 Comment

A Pyrenean Descent

We left a lovely family-run hostel in the village of La Mesa at about 7:30 a.m. into dense fog. It was super cool. We could hear the whomp-whomp of wind turbines as we passed underneath but couldn’t see them at all.

Fellow pilgrim Aija from Latvia took some photos of us on the extreme descent down to the Salime reservoir. I think it was about 2 hours of steep switchbacks over slate/phyllite to reach the dam.

Getting below the fog so we can see the view of the bottom of the descent.
The reward- a stop for coffee and a snack before beginning the climb back out of the valley.

We walked a very hard 20 km total and opted for another family hostel in an old stone house in a tiny hamlet.

Tristan got creative with photos of his evening beverage. 😉